I would like to invite you to a webcast designed specifically for our customers in the West Region. This event, presented by William Salazar – Microsoft will cover Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and will include technical and solution overviews. Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System is the best integrated software development platform to build…

There isn’t a lot of documentation out there that covers deploying Team Foundation Server across two non-trusted domains. This is not to say that TFS simply won’t work this, but that there is simply not a lot of deployment documentation to support this scenario. There is an MSDN forum post (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=177844&SiteID=1) that discusses it, but…

We’ve launched the SoCal Team System Community site (http://www.SoCalTeamSystem.com/). Our goal is to provide a more centralized area for Team System-related information that’s specific to Southern California. In the interest of time, the initial site leverages Office Live Beta (http://officelive.microsoft.com/). We are planning to create a custom site to eventually replace it (with much more…

The Team Foundation Server bits which you can download from MSDN (find it here) represent the full product – complete functionality and connectivity. The only difference is that there is a evaluation time limit of 180-days. Once you obtain your product key, you can simply enter your product key and remove the time limit.

If you’re looking for a quick way to “sandbox” Team System and Team Foundation Server, you can download a fully-configured VPC image from the MSDN Subscribers download area. Login to your MSDN Subscribers area. Go to downloads. Expand the tree to:Developer Tools->Visual Studio 2005->English->Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition (For Evaluation Only) Get the downloads for: Visual…

The western region DPE team is hosting twice-a-month webcasts from March through June. The first Friday of each month will cover a general platform overview, and the third Friday of each month will feature a specific topic area. Upcoming sessions: March 17th (10AM PST) – Deep Dive on TFS Source Control – https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=XST7PM&role=attend&pw=w%3D%3AjNFP5dApril 7th – Team…